17: Important Patriots | James A.Lafayette spyed on lord Cornwallis and told his army they're plays,George Washington was the commander and chief of the continental army,and Patrick Henry gave a speech called give me liberty or give me death.

18: Important Patriots | Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of independence,Jack Jouett told the assembly that the British were coming ,Paul Revere told a town and city the British were coming the British were coming,and Ben Franklin convinced the French to fight for they're lives.

19: Divided in war | African and American Indians were divided in war.

20: Support in the war | Women farming,making clothes,and caring for the sick.

21: Battles | Battle of Lexington Concord,Battle of Great Bridge, and Battle of Yorktown.

22: Treaty of Paris signed | Ended the American Revolution in 1783!

23: Contributions to a New Nation | George Washington was the first president and commander and chief of the continental army, James Madison took detailed notes and became the forth president,Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia statue of religious freedom and was the third president,George Mason wrote the Virginia declaration of rights and freedom from freedom of religion and the press and by the jury

24: f | Virginians Travels south and west for better farm land

25: Branches of government | Legislative:The people who wrote the laws Executive:The people who made the laws Judicial:The people who decide if laws have been broken

26: Famous Abolitionist | Nat Turner lead a revolt on plantation owners and 60 white people,Harriet Tubman was a slave who helped over 300 slaves escape on the Underground railroad,John Brown was a white male who lead a raid on Harpers Ferry on a rainy day

27: Divided nation: Differences between North and South | The north had machines and didn't need slaves but the south needed slaves because they didn't have machines and the north had more soldiers than the south

28: Creation of West VA | Western counties wanted slavery away so they made their own state called West Virginia and stayed in the Union.

29: Union | President Abe Lincoln General Ulysses Grant and the Union army.

30: Confederacy | President Davis,Lee,Jackson, and Stuart and the whole Southern army.

31: Important Battles | Beware,My,Foot,Can,Punt,Red,Apples

32: Abe Lincoln | Abe Lincoln was our 16th president and the person who kept our country together.

33: Confederacy surrenders at Appomattox court house

34: Reconstruction | Problems in VA were banks were destroyed.Crops were ruined and everything was badly damaged.

35: Reconstruction | Sharecropping was when a land owner gave land to another farmer so they can plant crops but they have to give the land owner half the money they earn. Freedman's Bureau was a society that helped Africans and poor Virginians get food and medical care.

36: After Reconstruction | Segregation,discrimination,and Jim Crow Laws were how the blacks were treated.

37: Virginia's economy begins to grow again | Railroads,were the key to expansion. Tazewell (coal) and tobacco farming as well.

38: Civil rights movement | Thomas Woodrow Wilson,George C.Marshall were very famous people in the civil rights movement.

40: 20th and 21st Century Virginia | Rural: Life in the country/open farmlands. Urban:Life in the city. Old systems of farming were no longer effective and crops prices were low.People moved from rural to urban areas and from many other states for economic opportunities